Economy & Business

Common Good Vermont: Vermont Nonprofit Legislative Day, Part 1 02/09/2011

Common Good Vermont Annual Meeting followed by Workshop: Advocacy Successes: How to Influence the Vermont Legislature. Moderator Kevin Ellis of KSE. Panel: John Shullenberger, Vermont Housing and Conservation Coalition, Andrea Cohen, Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility and Paul Burns of VPIRG.

Burlington Ward 5 NPA Meeting 02/08/2011

Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots, neighborhood organizations that were established in each of Burlington's seven Wards to empower citizen participation in City government. Working as neighborhood advocacy groups, Neighborhood Planning Assemblies facilitate communication between the citizens of Burlington and city government through regular meetings scheduled in each Ward. Ward 5 meet the SECOND Tuesday of the month. Meeting place: Department of Public Works
645 Pine Street.

Burlington Ward 6 NPA Meeting 02/03/2011

Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots, neighborhood organizations that were established in each of Burlington's seven Wards to encourage citizen participation in City government. Working as neighborhood advocacy groups, Neighborhood Planning Assemblies help improve communication between the citizens of Burlington and City government through regular meetings scheduled in each Ward. Ward 6 meets the first Thursday of the month. Meeting place: Greek Orthodox Church 600 South Willard Street.

Bilingual Burlington Bilingue - Classe 2 02/03/2011

Elementary Business French for downtown Burlington retail and hospitality workers. Intructor Kim Chase, teacher at Hunt Middle School in Burlington. A production of The Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region and the Church Street Marketplace Association. Underwritten by Ernie Pomerleau. For more information about this program and how to be involved email Steve Norman at: stevenorman@fastmail.fm or go to www.aflcr.org.

Congressman Peter Welch: Rep. Peter Welch - Farm-to-Plate Roundtable Discussion 02/03/2011

The second stop on a month long listening tour, Rep. Peter Welch tours the Intervale's food distribution center, then sits down with farmers, distributors, consumers, economic development officials and business leaders to discuss how the federal government can support Vermont's agricultural community. The roundtable comes on the heels of the release of the Farm to Plate Strategic Plan, a report written by the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund at the request of the Vermont Legislature.

Whistle Where You Work: Immigration Detention Reform - Financial Reform and the SEC, Episode 30 02/03/2011

WWYW is a multimedia program focusing on issues of accountability, that is produced by the Government Accountability Project, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization. Episode 30 Segment 1: Immigration Detention Reform. David Shapiro and Brittney Nystrom. Segment 2: Financial Reform and th SEC. Interview with Jason Zuckerman.

If you want to purchase a copy of this program, please visit http://www.whistleblowertv.org/.

Colchester Town Budget Presentation 01/27/2011

Colchester Assistant Town Manager, Joan Boehm, present the town budget for fiscal 2011-12.

If you want to puchase a copy of this programplease contact LCATV: 862-5724 or email info@lcatv.org.

Bilingual Burlington Bilingue - Classe 1 01/27/2011

Wonderful World of Sustainable Transportation: Outlook for Transportation with the new Administration 01/25/2011

General Manager Chris Cole, Chittenden County Transportation Authority, Director Chapin Spencer, Local Motion, and Annie Bourdon of CarShare Vermont and other transportation leaders discuss transportation issues, ideas and initiatives. Tonight, Chris and Annie speak about the outlook for transportation with the new Shumlin Administration.

Common Good Vermont: Income Tax Filing Season 01/24/2011

Host Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks with Peggy Riley of the Internal Revenue Service on last minute changes, delays in filing, e-file and Free File as well as the many ways that taxpayers can get free tax assistance this year.

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!